Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time
Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist
Submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/100946-microsoft-bing-search-engine-claims-australia-doesnt-exist.html
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SteefLem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
stifle867@programming.dev 1 year ago
New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).
SteefLem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oof. I think if nz heard you they will haka your ass ;)
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was “thinking” of NZ ;) Not sure about Finland but sounds about right \s
sexeducation@fanaticus.social 1 year ago
Who cares about kangaroo land?
puttybrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Google isn’t even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great
wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 1 year ago
Bing gets you answers fast.
they didn't say they'd be the right answer tho.
Zyratoxx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
sexeducation@fanaticus.social 1 year ago
Imagine using ecosia in 2023. You’re being scammed my friend haha
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 year ago
Deebster@programming.dev 1 year ago
Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon
Now that’s what I like to see!
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Search engines don’t make claims. They just deliver search results. People who fail to understand the difference have a really hard time interpreting the results.
Rinox@feddit.it 1 year ago
Yeah, but it’s changing. Search Engines today don’t just present you links to other websites, but have also started to take some of that information and show it to you directly. First it was by showing you little excerpts, but now with Bing Chat it’s becoming a lot more developed.
With Bing Chat, you ask your search engine a question, and it will answer you directly in a conversation-like manner. This feels a lot more like it’s not just showing you a list of sources, but it’s answering you directly, making claims, stating “facts” etc. You can easily forget it’s just a search engine, can’t fault people for this.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Fuck, who’s turn was it to pay off bing this month?!
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
whose
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This isn’t time of semantics, we’ve gotta problem here!
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it
hltdev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
does anyone actually ever use Bing, when not either tricked/manipulated into using it or under some sort of bribe/incentive via ms rewards ?..
elgordio@kbin.social 1 year ago
I use it for free access to gpt-4 and dalle-3. Can’t say I use it as a browser though.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just so you know - it’s nowhere near as good as the “real” gpt-4.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Everybody who uses DDG is mostly using Bing. Albeit more privately.
PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Huh. I had no idea! And I use DDG… But I feel like all search engines are shit these days. 50% of the hits are autogenerated translations with AI creating false .[country] domain (I’m in Denmark) which are just advertisements. I miss the old days of search engines. Fuck, even Alta Vista gave more right answers back in the Netscape days!
Tanoh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got super tired of google a few months ago. “Ah, you searched for these terms. But I am going to ignore that and instead show you results for these diffetent ones, because fu.”
So I started using bing instead, I wouldn’t say it is worse. Just differently bad. Some search things are much worse, some are much better.
Quite annoying how they keep pushing for “AI” all the time though, so might go back to google soon anyway.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those “what am I doing anyway” moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.
Thade780@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bing is so much better than anything else for image search in my experience. Anything else, lol.
Tavarin@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yep, Bing is pretty solid as far as search engines go.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 year ago
It’s video search is good for porn lmao.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
you can search anonynous in bing, that’s why Ecosia and DDG use it backend
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…Guess I’m from Queensland, New York now.
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Welcome to the states, brother!
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All LLM replies are hallucinations
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
The article isn’t about LLMs.
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 1 year ago
Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You didn’t really think there was an overgrown island with rabbits that stand upright and every animal, including dogs, hellbent on killing you?
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz are Dead FTW!
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reminds me of time when Poland was erased from Time Zones map in Windows, creating “The Great Polish Sea”.
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are we relying on algorithms and AI to tell us facts now? Why dont these companies have curated information for set subjects, as this is how conspiracy crap kicks off in this day and age!?
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
The article isn’t even about AI. This is just default Bing search. The AI actually does know about Australia.
It’s rather like a wild back how Google search said that there were no French military victories in history. It’s just bad data collection, nothing to do with AI
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Previous articles linked on here before said the top search engine result was chatgpt.
My comment still stands. There is an algorithm being used to give you the search engine result. What we need is a human curator for this sort of stuff. Not data analysis.
egeres@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who caaaaaares, why is this news 😭? It’s been said over and over that these networks aren’t reliable and can make mistakes, so what, it will be fixed in a month or so? Is not like these systems are deployed in critical situations or anything
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
It’s been said over and over that these networks aren’t reliable
What networks? What are you on about, did you even read the article?
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where?
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’m not sure. It doesn’t exist. Perhaps I’m sleeping.
Matt@lemdro.id 1 year ago
There
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This feels just like that situation when gøøgl€ was saying there are no countries beginning with “K” before listening Kenya, except on a continental scale.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
gøøgl€
Wow that is really obnoxious.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
#AustraliaIsntReal
Wake up sheeple, time to get with the program. It’s finally all coming out…
jerome@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Australia is really New Zealand, everyone knows that.
Gazumi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Flat Earth and other loonies will be all over this as an “accidental leak”
brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I mean have you heard an Australian accent? It’s like “this is totally a legit accent, we’re speaking English, mate, jabbamawong!” half of it isn’t even words they just make it up as they go like they’re not being sarcastic.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whats the one that “ackshually” doesn’t exist? Its like some running gag or something
peto@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Finland.
Or New Zealand if you are a cartographer.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
NZ
Yessss
Teknikal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My brains thinking Finland but I might be wrong.
Archer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can’t have a NATO lake without Finland so of course it exists
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
It would've been better if they just kept it... I mean, the theory has everybody already
Vitaly@feddit.uk 1 year ago
fact
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We don’t
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’ll bet it does though.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Emus? I think you mean cassowaries…
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The cassowaries were being controlled by the platypus, who were in turn controlled by huntsman spiders. Drop bears fit in there somewhere…
kambusha@feddit.ch 1 year ago
They were dropping bears. It was horrible.
MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Emu war was on the other side of the country.
middleman35@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
The First Emu War was. Emu War II was much more devastating.
Source: Bing